... Stedelijk Museum . Paris: Editions des Deux Mondes. Skopec , David . 1996 . The Changing Media of Visual Statistics. In Encyclopedia and Utopia: The Life and Work of Otto Neurath (1892–1945) , edited by Elisabeth Nemeth and Friedrich Stadler. Dordrecht: Kluwer. “Seeing Is Believing” Otto...

...Amos Witztum The question of whether there is general equilibrium in Adam Smith lies at the heart of the battlefield between those who wish to see Smith as a precursor of modern economics and those who see in his writing an alternative system. In this article I will argue that it is possible...

...Philippe Fontaine This article surveys histories of recent economics told mainly from the perspective of outsiders to the discipline. As we see, the work of historians of science, intellectual historians and sociologists who write on the history of recent economics prompts different questions...

... is that HOPE has always been more pluralistic than current members of the profession, who often see the journal as a stronghold for the historical reconstruction method, seem to acknowledge: while some individuals or groups of individuals have suggested bolder inflections for the field over the years...

... and their views of the nature of economic analysis to try to see some of the power of Taylor's distinction. The essay concludes by looking at recent work in behavioral economics as evidence that economists can consider broader criteria than utility maximization in examining economic behavior. Only if economics...

...Joseph Persky The study of luck in moral and political philosophy has generated two camps: the ``luck egalitarians,'' who see justice as demanding aggressive efforts to reduce inequalities produced by luck broadly conceived, and the advocates of ``democratic equality,'' who emphasize traditional...

... of the 1950s. In this article, voluntary exchange is used as a vehicle to examine positions taken on the market failure engendered by public goods. What we see is that the discussion was less about the mechanics of voluntary exchange theory or solutions to public goods problems than it was about beliefs...

...—and the historical relevance of the debates and the intellectual and factual work preceding and following those debates. This cross-analysis, which takes into account both sides of the question, that is, both the solid faith of people who see themselves as belonging to the cultural framework of Catholic moral...

...Emmanuel Didier What does it mean for a small bunch of civil service statisticians to observe something as huge as the whole American agriculture? What are the eyes that can see this? We answer this question focusing on the actual practice of statistical observation at the beginning...

... institutions, economic policy proposals, and the unplanned, spontaneously arisen Lombard irrigation system, underlining the impediments to its application to Ireland. He sees intelligence as the key factor of production, since economic progress depends on knowledge, both codified and uncodified. His approach...

... servant in the imperial administration, a writer, and an early nationalist fighting for Indian independence. Dutt encouraged traveling because, according to him, if Indians were to see and experience progress in Europe they could better understand modernity. Indian travel writing, unlike the European...

... on the essential Scottishness of the text, seeing Glasgow as the indispensable intermediary between lowland Scotland's town-and-country dynamics and its insertion into global trading routes. However, Glasgow plays no explicit part in the way Smith chose to construct his arguments. This juxtaposition between...

...Andrés Álvarez; Andrés M. Guiot-Isaac; Jimena Hurtado Lauchlin Currie and Albert O. Hirschman worked together as advisers to the National Planning Council in Colombia in the 1950s. Both had little experience in development economics when they arrived, and did not see eye to eye about...

...; and third, to explore some of what I see as the main similarities and differences between engineering and economics. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 engineering economics uncertainty systems thinking References Besley T. Hennessy P. . 2009 . “ The Global...

...Thomas A. Stapleford This article explores the recent history of the data revolution in economics, arguing that many of its features parallel the vision for statistical economics championed by Wesley Mitchell during the interwar period. Seeing the data revolution as kin to Mitchell’s hopes...

...Yann Giraud There are two main approaches to the use of textbooks in the history of recent economics. One approach consists in seeing textbooks as repositories of past knowledge and in using them as shortcuts to retrace changes in the discipline. Another perspective, favored by science studies...

... to express the centrality of individual agency even when it comes to renouncing alternatives. Sociologists see it more as a consequence of one's decision being subjected to social-structural forces. They resort to the concept to show that engagement in a consistent line of action stems from decisions...

... University Heights, Asheville NC 28804-3299. 1. Paul Samuelson, Foundations of economic analysis (Cambridge, Mass., 1947), 4. 2. See ibid. 5 and 22-23. 3. See Mark Blaug, The methodology of economics (Cambridge, 1980); Bruce Caldwell, Beyond positive economics (London, 1982); and Johannes J...

... Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Index Africa, 81 82, 95 Ambrosio, Chiara, 222 African economic quantification, American Statistical Association 81 82. See also Mauritanian (ASA), 193 94 economic quantification analogical reasoning, 116 agricultural economics. See also anchoring...

... Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Index AALL. See American Association opening scene, 200–201 for Labor Legislation reviews of, 196 (AALL) sales of, 214 Acworth, William Mitchell, 60 subject...